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USB storage not mounting partition

Hi

Using SuSE 11.0 x86_64 I'm trying to connect my Sony Ericsson w580i as an external drive. I select 'File Transfer mode' on the phone and the output from dmesg leads me to believe that it gets as far recognising the fact that a USB drive has been attached, but it doesn't scan for its capabilities and so doesn't load the partition. So I have a /dev/sdi but no /dev/sdi1. Does anyone know how to force udev(?) usb-storage(?) scsi(?) to scan and load the partition? It works fine under Windows.

We have a similar problem where at times a LaCie USB drive does not show up in /proc/partitions. When this happens, we are unable to access the drive. To make matters even more strange, if the user disconnects the USB drive from the cable and not server, Suse does not register the reconnection event and the drive will be missing in hwinfo as well.

We have been unable to find any way to force a rescan of the USB bus. Even after unloading everything related to the USB moduals and reloading them the device fails to show up.

We have found that the only way to correct the problem is to disconnect the device from the server and reconnect it.

I would like to be able to force a virtual disconnect and reconnect.

We also have problems on our XP systems where cameras have problems from time to time when connect to the USB ports.

Update/solved

Seems like this is a hardware problem rather than anything to do with the Linux USB handling. I had to reinstall XP on my office PC (I'm a developer and something got screwed somewhere with the XP system dlls - best option is a reinstall) and when I tried to connect the phone before installing any drivers, XP couldn't/wouldn't recognise it as a USB mass storage device. When I installed the drivers, it would.

I've email'd Sony Ericsson support to see if they can shed any light on the matter, I'll post if I find the solution.

test this

Originally Posted by McToo

Hi

Using SuSE 11.0 x86_64 I'm trying to connect my Sony Ericsson w580i as an external drive. I select 'File Transfer mode' on the phone and the output from dmesg leads me to believe that it gets as far recognising the fact that a USB drive has been attached, but it doesn't scan for its capabilities and so doesn't load the partition. So I have a /dev/sdi but no /dev/sdi1. Does anyone know how to force udev(?) usb-storage(?) scsi(?) to scan and load the partition? It works fine under Windows.